I’m off at the crack of dawn to London tomorrow for BT’s regular ISP Forum. These are great gigs, fair play to BT. Organised by BT Wholesale the Fora are opportunities for BT to communicate with their Communications Provider customers.
Although we are guests of BT they don’t always get it their own way – there is often a lively and critical debate from the floor. The information exchange is useful but the opportunity to network is even more useful – having most of the main UK ISPs there in ine spot. All ISPs buy from BT in one shape or form – LLU operators included.
Fortunately all I have to do tomorrow is to catch the train. Several friends and acquaintances have been tweeting and posting lamentable tales of flight unavailabilities for eComm, #140 NYC and FiberFete, all going on in the USA this week. At least they can follow it all online these days though man cannot live by internet alone, even though it pays the bills 🙂
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Have a good day tref, if you can remember ask BT wholesale why fibre costs so much to get to rural areas even though they already have the ducts, poles and wayleaves, and they don’t have to pay extra to the valuation office to light it… would be interested to know (especially when there is dark fibre passing through the area). Also if there is not the capacity in the copper to deliver the ‘up to 2 meg USC’ if they would lay fibre to rural communities instead of more copper. That should lead to a bit of light hearted banter?
chris